But it was working before with the EXACT same symptoms... Commenting a line from a file in /etc/pam.d/ fixed it... Stephen Goggin Test Engineer NetEffect, Inc. 9211 Waterford Centre Blvd. Austin, TX 78758 Email: sgoggin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 512.493.3232 :Desk 512.983.1939 :Mobile 512.493.3393 :Fax -----Original Message----- From: Dan Yefimov [mailto:dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 9:27 AM To: Stephen Goggin Cc: Pluggable Authentication Modules Subject: Re: No login prompt! HELP! On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Stephen Goggin wrote: > I've got a PXE server set up, the clients boot, and all seems to be OK. > > I get to the point of "Running /sbin/init", and it dies. > > I change the inittab to run in runlevel 1, and I get a bash prompt. If I > try to change the root password with passwd, I either get > "Authentication token manipulation error" or "Authentication token lock > busy". > > This is booting from NFS so almost everything is read-only. > > I've had this fixed once before, but I had to change a few things and > make a new image on the server, and lost the changes I made. Like a > dummy I didn't back it up, nor bookmark the page that had the fix. > > I remember commenting out a file in the /etc/pam.d/ directory, and > everything worked fine afterward... > This problem has nothing to do with PAM at all. /etc , /tmp and /var need to be mounted read-write in order for the entire system to operate correctly. I'd suggest you creating tar.gz archives of /etc and /var, mounting tmpfs over /etc and /var, and unpacking the archives created at first step into mounted tmpfs systems. -- Sincerely Your, Dan. _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
